Consumer Driven Health Care

Given the various proposed legislation for PBM reform, benefits brokers would be well served to be fully aware of the changes, be able to explain how they might affect their clients, and in the best-case scenario, be prepared to offer recommendations for plan changes and employee communication.

The three political appointees share an understanding of what it means to lead the Health and Human Services agency that makes life-or-death decisions every day that affect millions of Americans.

The benefits industry is scrambling to adapt to a rapidly shifting regulatory and economic environment while also looking ahead to an uncertain future.

Half of those insured – within each of four major types of health coverage – employer, Medicaid, ACA and Medicare – say problems caused delayed care or no care, according to KFF.

Telehealth rules, which were created during the pandemic, allowed for the prescribing of controlled substances without an in-person visit, will stay in place until November 11.

Effective weight-loss programs have proven hard to implement at large scale, and many health-care systems are not prepared to intervene in diabetes early, according to researchers at medical journal Lancet.